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- Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:15 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: How KC became center for high-tech without major university
- Replies: 33
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Re: How KC became center for high-tech without major univers
thanks for posting Max, very interesting. Could bode well for the region's future, especially with Google now in the fold. Tangential, but I wonder what it would take to get UMKC on the map as a "major university" that attracted people besides local high school grads and adults looking to...
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Kansas City optimism
- Replies: 93
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Re: Kansas City optimism
I'm not sure what these "hassles" are that everyone refers to when talking about larger and more vibrant cities. More people? Well, yeah. That comes with the territory. So does an increased cost of living, increased traffic congestion, and various other "hassles" which are the t...
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:06 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Kansas City optimism
- Replies: 93
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Re: Kansas City optimism
I'm optimistic because we seem to be in the middle of a serious creative boom here. And the role social media is playing in that is really interesting. Growing up here my sense was that there were a lot of creative types who were sort of disconnected - from one another and everyone else. Unless you ...
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:07 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Great hoods virtually unknown by metrowide residents
- Replies: 40
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Re: Great hoods virtually unknown by metrowide residents
No one's mentioned Squier Park so I'll throw it out there. It's on the other side of Troost from Central Hyde Park, and the style and vitage of the architecture is almost identical. Almost every prominent KC architect built there at the beginning of the 20th century. It went further downhill than Hy...